Bertrand Russell Quotes

For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at the same time, I don't consider women to be any less than men. In fact, I feel we are far more intelligent than them.

Women are simply not endowed with the same measure of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed.

I believe that woman are superior to men.

Believe it or not, I don't collaborate with women, though my agent and editor are both females. For the most part, they do little editing on my characters.

In my opinion it is a grave error for women to feel that they must move only in women's interests... . What, after all, would we think if men all got together and kept doing things that were supposed to be in the interest of men?

People aren't comfortable thinking of women as people. Like we're not people, we're women, and that means something completely different, especially when you have power.

There's going to be biological differences between the genders. There's going to be biological differences between two women or two men. There's biological differences between all of us. My concern is, why are we so concerned about it? Why are we so worried about it? Why, whenever a study comes out about men do this one way and women do this one way, or men's brains and women's brains - why are we so interested in that? You know, what makes us so fascinated by differences between the sexes? And I think more often than not that interest is deeply embedded in sexism.

One distressing thing is the way men react to women who assert their equality: their ultimate weapon is to call them unfeminine. They think she is anti-male; they even whisper that she's probably a lesbian.

Modern-era feminists believe that there is no inherent difference in men and women, that it's all the way they're raised.

I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.

'Men don't cry!' 'Women can't handle money!' What limiting ideas to live with.

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

There are certain things women are better at than men.

I don't think women are dumb.

Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.

I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' - now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.

I'm quite a chauvinistic person.

When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'

Why can't a woman be more like a man?

I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic.

There are still people who have an issue working with a woman director. Women can be viewed as 'difficult' even though they work in the same way as men.